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thtal. ILLINOIS bottot a tmnams iNh îOmr licfcit Ot Winter there ia taTlMHtlr; Aa& clothes with foeoe^tha" branches ban , Tl» whole night long. •' 'ifiif' 1 D. tt::4'; .',5 : "i*wui*MOB'~xv - *r • Vc And dnrarfs a wreck, y i^.. Ho lights Ysaoide his veaael hedeeoriea. No welcome beck. So harbor bmoon triads his eyes; ^ . «,.«* TheproapeotfrfghtK • - ^si/f 4^ • m. • * : tfheoop, ' ' * 'OB meh I nlrtt. within a doorway hides, . ». •' Where it to warm, lad, till his vitrli ia over, there ft bide* 6a:e from the scann. The hop _ , Foad lovers alight, and carden gat#*- - , No longer charm; \i&*rfu Within she pope the com and wait* 'v=' _ For him to pop ^ ; • --JlMfon Courier. - Masic Revealed. Rt - *y. of 8«pp»wd lyiferlM of UierdcMia nd Second Sight. 1 *®,:-A lew years ago the amusement-Tot- : ' ng citizens of New York were mystified beyond measure bj the second-sight ' performances of Robert Heller. They were tin talk of the town for many t dm, beoause the? seemed to be out- ' aids tiie pale of ordinary feats of leger- - dtaiam, and to have an almost snper- •, natural eharacter. This diablerie was never explained in any authorative way that earned conviction to the ordinary •{ mind, although everyone formed his OWn pet theory as to how it was done, which theory was generally upeet sub* ' > sequently by Heller himself. tteoUnr performs did aomere- •MfcaUe things in the way of second ai^ht Ho could take up a quaint old oo«n that was brought to the theater far 41M express purpose of puzxling hia^aad Miss 1 BLaidee Heller, faliad- Md^L would tell its nationality, oolor, tiaidale. While heheWaladys watch In his hand she would describe its ap- IIBSWBIJII sad even give its number, and, bestef all, wfaw a person in the audi­ ence opened a book at random, Miss Sir would tell the number of the at which it waa opened, and read entente of the page. This trick Wyftuislly made credulous New Yorkers fapiegr therewas some unknown power •ft work in the mental oc psychological make-tro of Miss Heller or Bobert Hel­ ler, and they were utterly at sea as to lunr the thing was done. Letters were frrittfU to tlie newspapers purporting ID dxaolose the seoet, bnt falling wide­ ly short of the real truth; magazine artkiee were published on the subject; tfcseter jutrtifM and social clubs found an intssecting topic of discussion in this JHgWty problem; but everybody, after • white, decided, with Dundreary, that II was ooe of those things that "no fel­ ler can find out" Bebe* Heller fully realized the pop­ ular perplexity on the subject, and he WW occasionally in bis witty, chetty wyW prtftend "to grve the secret away, Mas' after this fashion, at the of an entertainment. "Ladies en: You may say this is spiritualism, rheumatism, you please, but you will prob- ly decade after all that it is simply Helleriam." This sally, after the ouri- arifr of the audienoe was whetted with the expectation of being able to pluck oelttywflrtof the mystery, usually brofaght down Che house* and everybody Wttte thealer with the pleasant sense of having been deUghtlmllypiuttled be­ yond their powers of oomprehensioB. So long as Heller could anka a for­ tune out of the aeoond-aigbt btume&s it M* « all strange thst the story of his an Was never accurately told, and that --ay bright minds puazled themselves over it and never discovered the truth ly to the remarkable syatepn mastered by him and his apt _ _ Heller. It is the purpose «f tins article, however, to give in brief *mhan insight into Heller's methods as will- enable the verieat tyro to at "Mt understand how the triek was ac- cmiplished, even if he iMd not have the aatuial ability and qakfcaess of nwoapfaonto master its details suffi- mmaj wellto repeat ft before a parlor pfamazed listeners. The disclosures hmtemadecome substantially from a wou-knownyoung amateur of Brook­ lyn Harry B. Livingston, who Jaamed from Heller's own lips some of Wa wrflrkept secrets, and from E. J. Iwa, who was an assistant of the ma- gieian on the stage, or a "confederate," as oynical spectators would say, for aaaas time and was the assistant of Mr. laviDgstoft for two years. Mr. Living- «9%*hohas followed the pursuit of J**®*™® magic purely from a love of U»e art, and is seen in public only in connection with entertainments for aweat ohvity's sake," has in his $10,- VW oollection of magical apparatus *»& artacles used by Heller in his P"tormanc88 in the old hall in Twenty- foiv^ street, now known as the Madi- aon Bquare theater. As Heller is dead, M reported to be in Lgidon delighting English men of the wona and American tourist# in the "J? ®f. » disPfn-er of beverages that wuight tho interior man, no harm can ^ come to any one by a plain tacj^l of the whole matter. The few magiciaits who pretend to possess the gift of second sight have much simpler wtems, which are far less snrpriling average spectator than Heller's aMMai comparison are purile and un- consideration. Hijaar had several methods of ner- f«rming the trick, which he wwld c^nge from night to night to prevent owforery at the hands of those persist- ont persons who attend his dances 223^"^ m °Ider to finally dis- aapnt turn by a discovery. Bv usinir fffmral.methods a night everybody would be more myst fied than ever. 11 wa first place, Heller formed as a basis ^MMParaUons a list of over four unatad arueles, which would cover an audience ihtoNW, These series were committed tameewMj by Heller and his fair as- awtant in the order in which they were --"* a For instance, here is one of •hat was used to erive to color article, or the first thirteen letters I alphabet, or the numerals here- atated. As will be seen, the color, W number was obtained by the •hich the question was framed: ISAttethle?...Brown--1--a. • u?.... White--2-- tM 9 • m Biue--l an object was asked for, is "color." "Can you name this color T would be brown, of course; "Can you give this cuiw -r «*a. If any oth^r lei'wts of iho aiphsbet were wanted, say, to toll the monogram on a watch or slefve button, a snap of the finger weald aaeeaapany Uie qusatioB, the re­ maining letters in the alphabet bear* ing the same relative position to the aeries given. For instance "N," the fourteenth letter in the alphabet, would be given by asking the first question, "Can you name this letter?" accompa­ nied by a snap of the fingers. The fif­ teenth letter in the alphabet would re­ quire the second question, and so through the list. * Heller's success in'this and other methods depended largely on his own marvelous memory and the memory of Haidee Heller, and when he put one of these or other questions to her, in the most natural and off-hand manner in the world, she would respond as quickly as if the object were right before her eyes. This will be readily recalled by anyone who has ever seen one of his performances. There was another series of questions which was used in the same way, the cue being color for Colors, precious stones for such, these difterent groups of thirteen each being classified in the order of the series of questions already given or of this series: How--1--a. . Yenr well--8--It. Now--a-b. i. See here 3 • o, , M'lWelJ--n--1 Be qqick--4-d, " V = Jhere-17--k. Look here-4-e.. . ©nick--18--L < - » o o n -- r t -- f . L o o k s h a r p -- m . And here--7--f. A snap of the finger would accom­ plish the same purpose in this series as in the other. ' The system of the elder Hermann and of fioudin was very cumbersome and apparent. A long string of ques­ tions would sometimes have to be asked to get at a very simple object, and the system was, moreover, very much cir­ cumscribed and inadequate to the pur­ pose. Mention has been made of Hel­ ler's classification of objects into groups of thirteen. Materials were ar­ ranged in this list: Stone, cloth, gum, putty, leather, cork, marble, glass, ore, ivory, rubber, wood, and hair. The metal chosen were: Gold, silver, brass, nickel, steel, tin, lead, platinum, mer­ cury, copper, bronze, sine, and iron. Precious stones were: Diamond, to­ paz, emerald, ruby, amethyst, blood­ stone, opal, cameo, cat's-eye, sapphire, onyx, carbuncle, and pearL Designs were arranged in this order: hkull, head, musical instruments, house, fig­ ure, insect, coin, star, monogram, three links, square and compass, strap and buckle, and weapon. Leading coun­ tries were also systematized in this way, and, as for playing card, the ten num­ bered cards corresponded with the first ten questions in a series, and the jack, queen, and king with the last three questions. Heller and his assistant Used avery means for dramatic effect. Taking up a watch, be would give the proper cue to Miss Heller, who, knowing full well what the object was, would describe it as a round object and bright, and fin­ ally, after seeming difficulty, would say what it was amid much applause. The number of the watch was given by means of the system stated. "Can you give" the number was the one for units, "tell the" for tens, "will you give" for hundreds, "what's the" for thousands, and "give the" for hundreds of thous­ ands, say the watch was numbered 2,082. Heller would remark, "What's the number" ©n this, giving the cue for thousands thereby and adding "how," whieb, as will be seen by reference to the second series of questions given, stands for % Miss Heller would slowly reply "Two thousand," and Heller would respond, "Very well," "how," which would elicit from his assistant "82" at once. Heller, however, had other systems for performing the sec- ond-sight trick. One of ttem callod electricity into play. There was an armature and magnet in the bottom of the lounge upon which Miss Heller sat, and for ordinary there were thirteen telegraphic signals that Dale, who was on the stage concealed from view, would telegraph to her. She could feel the pulsations of the magnet, and would know at once what the article was that Heller was holding up in his hand without saying a wore. It was especially puzzling to many persons to see Heller take up an article from some person in the audience, and, although did not speak, Miss Heller would promptly say what it was. They did not know how simple the solution was. When Heller played in his Broadway theater, now Harrigan & Heart's there was lattice-work on the front of the stage covered with artificial flowers. Behind this sat Mr. Dale. Miss Heller was seated, blindfolded, with her back to the audience. Heller wold take up some article from the first or second row, and Mr. Dale through a strong opera glass slyly penetrating the lattice could see very clearly what it was and would telegraph to Miss Heller. To vary the system as much as possible, Da.e on some nights would communi­ cate to her through a speaking tube that ran through the stage floor up through the lounge where she sat. Perhaps the most impudent think in the way of audacity that Heller ever did was the book trick. A gentleman in the rear of the audienco, apparently from the country, would hold up a vol­ ume and say: "Now, I'd like Miss Heller to tell me what I've got in my hand." Heller would appear annoyed, would not notice him further than to say: "You should have spoken of this sooner," in a nettled tone. Suspicion would grow that Heller was"stuck," and finally, as the gentleman, who wasgen.- erally a dude, was persistent, the great magician would elicit from Miss Heller that it was a book. Then he would go on the stage, and in order to make tha bandage over Miss Heller's eyes doubly effective apparently, he would tie a glove over each eye. They, however, would be tied in such a way as to form a sort of French roof over each optic so that Miss Heller could see very well looking down. The dude wanted to know the name of the book, and after due consideration Miss Heller would say, for instance, Bawlinson's "History of the Ancient Egyptians." Heller would tell the dude to put a playing card in the book at random and open it. It was done, and Heller would glance at the page, and, asking Miss Heller the proper questions, she would at once give its number. The aston­ ished dude verrified the answer. Then #Miss Heller would proceed to read the contents of the page, to the amazement of everybody. This trick was not done every night. The explanation is sim­ ple. Miss Heller had a duplicate book, and the dude was another confederate. When she got the cue for the page and to the page on her Before a Heller wm en articles mas ue auCieooa, and pat them in a hat Half an h*«r later he would let any on in ih«i toa Miss Hoi 1st it was. She always an­ swer. This seems strange, 1ml it Ja as aimple asany oiher miatary JB)M» it* explained. Bef<*re the psrkirmanoe of second-sight Heller wotfM find ooe* sion to go on the stage, either to band' age Miss Heller's eyes or something of the sort, and he would tell her quickly Mid in a very low tone of course, the oontents of the hat. She woald remem­ ber tha articles in the order in which he enumerated them, and Heller was careful to pick them out of the hat ia the same order. Of course, he would not allow any person in the audienoe to pick them out These are the various systems used bv Heller in his oeoond-sight business. Murder will out, and so will magicians' tricks, and these explanations may be aooepted as the truth of tha whole mat­ ter. Of course there are very many other details connected with the per­ formance of magic which it is unneces­ sary to go into here. They are simply cumulative. Anybody with an excel lent memory and a quickness of per­ ception can do the most difficult trick with the aid of another person similarly gifted.--iVew lor A: Times. •ark Twain** IfcMaeetle Caut<M> waft In 1889, Twafa^MadTjournalism ior a time in Buflfclot where he held an ed­ itorial pesitienati a dsily paper. While there he fell latore with •faamg lady, a abler of "twit*-- made famous In MINNO?RO%3 ABROAD" -TEST 3*3? FATHA?, A of looked ua/avorafoly upon his daughter's alliance with a Bohemian literary char- leter. MX like yo«,? he aaid to Mark, "but what 4a 4 know of your antecedents ? Who ia tha?* to aMwer for you any­ how?" After reflecting for a few moments, Mark thought v>me of his old Califor­ nia friends would speak a good word for him. Tha proapective father in­ law wrote eeveral letters of Inquiry to several reaidenta of San Francisoo, to whom Clemens referred him, and, with one exception, the letters denounced Mm woman'sat • Toast Drinking^', Bi r The present Wawfch of Ydrk cotinly is to be congratulated. He haa the oourage of his oonvictions. He is total abstainer, and he therefore feels that he must be hospitable without sup­ plying his guests with "strong drinks." On Tuesday last lie gave the ustial " Warden's supperavowed his prin­ ciples like a man; managed everything to the satisfaction of all present, and showed that a man may be successfully hospitable, and his guests bath happy and hilarious without the assistanoi of "strong waters." If the warden had gone a step furth­ er, and abolished altogether the idiocy of toaat drinking, he would have put another feather in his cap, aifd would have an additional claim to being re­ garded as a sensible, levol-headed man. There is something intensely absurd in toast and health-drinking in any case, but it reaches the acme of fool­ ishness when gravely proceeded with in "honest water." The custom is heathenish and bacchanalian in its ori­ gin, and its upholders and practicers have always taken good care that there should be no mistake as to whence it sprang. Altogether it is more honored in the breach than the observance, and as it is well for sensible people to show that they are not such dullards as not to be able to be pleasantly convivial without the help of artificial stimulants, so it is equally desirable that they should be able to manage their conviviality with­ out having recourse to empty ceremo­ nies which remind one of nothing but religious fetichism, or boisterous de­ bauchery. It seems that tha history of these toasts is simply this: It was custom­ ary in the days of Charles II, or earlier, to put a piece of toasted bread in a jug of ale, hence called "a toast and a tan­ kard." It happened that on one occa­ sion, so goes the story, one of the "pro­ fessional beauties" of the Merry Mon­ arch's time, when that phrase had ever, a still more significant meaning than it has at present, was in a large publie bath, when one of the crowd of enthus­ iastic admirers and on-lookers took a glassful of water in which the fair lady stood, and drank with it her health to the company. A gay, half-tipsy young fellow in the company offered to'jump in, and declared that though he liked hot the liquor, he would have the "toast" Begun in this characteristic fashion, the custom for a while was confined to "toasting" favorite beauties, or mis­ tresses in private parties, till, in course of time, these toasta were given on all imaginable subjects at public drinking meetings, accompanied by and with all the idiocies of "hip, hip, hurrah, and "all the honors," advancing as men "had well drank" to still more uproar­ ious folly. To cap the climax of ab­ surdity, some toasts had to be drank, not with uproarious noise, but in "sol­ emn silence." And to think all this tomfoolery hav- mg arisen from a brainless loafer drinking the health of a questionable beauty in a glass of not surpassingly clean water.--Toronto Globe. The Study of Finger-Nails* Phrenology and chiromancy have long ago become established branches of pseudo-science, and books and pam­ phlets on these subjects are within the reach - of everybody. There is, how­ ever, a new branch of the curious methods of physical research into physical character, which is as yet very little developed. It is the study of the finger-nails, the shape and color of which are said to indicate certain traits of character. Finger-nails, according to the experts of the new fad, if long and slender, denote imagination and poetic feelings, love of art, and laziness; if long and flat, they are the sign of prudence, good sense, and grave ment­ al faculties; if wide and short, of anger and rudeness, controversy, and obstin­ acy ; a healthy color signifies virtue, health, happiness, courage, and liber­ ality; dry and brittle nails are signs of anger, crneltv, quarrel, culminating even in murder; curved in the shape of claws, hypocrisy and wickedness; soft, feebleness of body and mind; and, last­ ly, we are told that short nails, gnawed down to the flesb, signify stillness and dissipation. Which last injunction would make it worth while to commend the study of nails at least to schoolboys laboring under the burd­ en of mathematical studies, or the heavier corvee of an unwelcome impo­ sition.--Pall Mall Gazette. Thirteen, and One to Carry. A well-husbanded lady is now resid-. ing in the State of Arkansas. She is 65 years of age, and is living with a courageous man who has assumed the position of being her fourteenth lius- bandl It is said that in the hall of her house there are thirteen pegs, upon each of which hangs a hat duly labeled as the property of one of the defunct husbands.^ Carried to Extremes. Postal cards are useful, but their use may be carried to extremes. The dentist gets himself over a postal and writes: "Dear Madam: Your teeth are done." The liair man writes: "Madam: Your wig is ready." The optician grins and scrawls: "Mrs.-- I will send yoxtf glass eye to-morrow." --Courier-Journal WHOEVER is suspicions treaaon.--Voltari*. ^ Incites letters were read aloud by the old gen­ tleman. There was a dreadful silence for a moment, and then Mark stam­ mered : "Well, that's pretty rough on a fellow, anyhow!" His betrothed oame to hia rescue, however, and overturned the mass of testimony against him by saying, "111 risk you, anyhow." The terrible father-in-law lived in Elmira, New York, and there Mark was married. He had told his friends in the newspaper office at Buffalo, to se­ lect him a suit of rooms in a first-class boarding house in the city, and to have a carriage at the depot to meet the bride and groom. Mark knew they would do it, and gate himself no more anxiety about it When he reached Buffalo he found » handsome carriage, a beautiful span of horses, and a driver in livery. They drove him up to a handsome house on an aristocratic street, and as the door was opened, there were the parents of the bride to welcome them home. The old folks had arrived on the quiet by a special train. After Mark had gone through the house and examined its elegant finishings, he WMnotified officially, that ha had been driven by his own coach­ man, in his own carriage, to his own house. They say tears came to £is wonderfully dark and piercing eyes, and all that he could say was, " Well, this is a first-class swindle." Not long after his marriage Mark settled down in Hartford, and invested capital in insurance companies there. The Clemens mansion in Hartford is aJtyQdel of architectural beauty, and is elegantly finished in the interior. In the'library, over the fire-place, is a brass plate with the inscription in Old English text: "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." Mark does not use the library for his study, but does nearly all his writing in the billiard room at the top of the house. It is a long room, with sloping sides, light and airy, and very quiet.* In this room Mark writes on a plain table, with his refference books lying scattered about him. He makes it an invariable < rule to do a certain amount of literary work every dav, and his working hours are' made continuous by his not taking a mid-day meat He destroys much manuscript, and it is said he rewrote 500 pages of one of his popular books. Mark is an industrious worker, and continues his labors the year rouncL In summer he retreats to his villa on, the Hudson, or to a cottage in the mountains near Elmira, New York. There he finds the most quiet solitude, and there he works undisturbed. Mark is fond of his wife, and of his three beautiful children. He has aohieved a notable success as a lecturer, both in' this country and in England--Famous Funny Fellows. Turkish Bath for Horses. , Turkish bath has recently come info rather extensive use for curing the ailments of horses; and a few private stables, as well as several belonging to corporations, are now fitted with com­ plete horse-baths. . A recent number of The Builder gives the plan of such an establishment just added to the Great Northern Railway Company, which shows a compact group of three rooms; one serving both as a reception room and as a place for the final doucb, being about fifteen feet wide and twenty-four feet long; while the two hot-rooms, opening out of the reception room, are each somewhat less tnan twelve feet wide by the same length as the other. Hot air is supplied to the two smaller rooms from a "stckery" outside, and ventilating shafts remove it as fast as vitiated. Both the rooms are separated from the reception room by double doors, to prevent loss of heat; and an opening, over which a curtain is hung, connects the two. The first warm room, a "tepidarium," is kept at a temperature of about 140 degrees Fahrenheit: while the second room, a "calidarium," is kept at 160 or 170 degrees. The reception room is warmed only by the heat which escapes from the other two. The horses, upon treatment, are first rubbed down in the reception room, and then led into the "tepidarium," where they stay until they are accustomed to the heat, and are then, if their case seems to need it, laken into the "calidarium," where they stay until sufficient perspiration has taken place. From this room thfey return directly into the reception room, where they are bathed according to the judgment of the attendant in charge. As horses are naturally thin- skinned, and liable to the disor­ ders which proceed from a checked per­ spiration, it may be readily imagined that the Turkish bath, by its powerful action in opening the pores of the skin, might be of great use in treating them; and it is said that a firm of oarriers in London has had such a bath in opera­ tion for more than oleven years, treat­ ing during that time about twenty horses a week.--Popular Science News. Accident te Brother Gardner. As the hour for opening the meeting arrived, and the triangle sounded its warning notes, Sir Isaac Walpole as­ cended to the president's desk and said: . "Gem'ien, it am my painful dooty to riz up heah an' inform you dat Urudder Gardner will not be present dis eaven- in' fur de fust time since Piradise hall was opened to de club. Yesterday was de day fixed upen by him an' de ole woman fur settin' up de coal stove. Dey sot out in de bes' of sperits, nebber dreamin' of de dark sbadder which lov- ered o'er dc cabin roof an' ripped off de shingles vid its bloody claws." At this point the excitement and con­ fusion in the hall became so great that Giveadam Jones had to slam Elder Toots into the wood-box, and throw Humble Smith over three benches be­ fore order was restored. "Our beloved president had sprained his back and busted his suspenders," continued Sir Isaac, "but was still full of de feelin' that he would conker or die, when, at at critical minit, de. ole .. an* aata* gaibe, ail* it' Was BigV uMo» ag befo'ha came t»an* ikMlft mm Sabett doetora hav aareeandaddeoabtn abar since, all' our prasident has so fn* RECOVERED DAT HE MI, 1^1 between chMMtt . qffibitgia ' aa, clam chowder. His orders am fur me to oc­ cupy da flitee* an" do debts' I kin under de sareoiaslaaeaa." Waydown Bebee offered the follow­ ing resolution : Beaolved, Dat we aympathize wid our beloved president to de fullest ex- tentof de law, and dat his abseooe to­ night am deemed aa irreparable loss to de entiro nashatt. Tha resolution was unanimously adopted, and while the vote was Leing taken many of the members were seen to shed tears .-Lime-Kiln Club. Medicines That Injure, A Scottish physician tells, in tha Ed- inburg Medical Journal, that he be­ lieves strongly in the proper use of medicines, as anodynes, emetics, purga­ tives, diaphoretics, diuretics, etc., but he is also sure of mneh abuse of them. In 1834, while attending a provincial infirmary, be was atruok with the re­ covery of patients given up to die. The medicines, especially mercury, iodine, and iodides, would be suspended, and the nurse have orders to treat the pa tient kindly before dying. Immediate­ ly recovery would occur! This im­ pressed him, and ever since in practice he has studied whether medicines were doing good or harm. He always held, and still holds that homoeopathy Is chief­ ly the non abuse of medicines. In the time of Dr. Blaok and Professor Hen­ derson, of Edinburg, when this ques­ tion was publicly discussed, he chal- lengcd its advocates to try 100 cases without medioine and 100 oases treated secundum artem against 100 treated homceopathicaliy. He affirmed that in the first case, the result would be as good as in their 100 cases, and that in the second mode there would be more success. The challenge was not taken up. In Brazil his success was in cases treated by others. He merely sus­ pended medicines, and put the patient upon hygiene, sciehce, and common sense, correcting ignorance, neglect, and bad habits as to food, air, exeroise, baths, etc. His success in ohroaic oases was great, and people declared that he must have used medicines, and very strong ones, too, for he could not have made such cures otherwise! Some selected cases, further on, will be ex­ amples of this abuse of medicine, of diet, and of the horizontal position. Emetics, purgatives, anodynos, etc., relieve symptons, but do not go to the root of the matter--error in diet, dress, habits, ventilation, etc. As symptoms recur they have to have to be repeated. This was the English system of "dose and cure" of the glutton, or the befcr- swigger, only to "dose and cure" him again. The pills, potions, and powders were the general practitioner's chief in­ come, more thaa from fees. But hom­ oeopathy, with its metaphysics and para­ doxical wonders, and hydropathy, with its hygiene and appropriated science, have done muoh to correct this abuse of drugs. Mercury is' a good medicine in ita place and in careful quantity, as iA iodide of potasium. They will destroy abnormal exudations, or organization and the germs Of syphilitic taint, but carried beyond this object they will de- bilite and destroy the body itself. Qui­ nine is a good tonic and specific, but in large doses it is most pernioious. And why in big doses, if small ones will serve ? What deafness and loss of sight has it not caused? He has known a child made deaf and dumb with one large dotfK5* He has-seen del­ icate patients take fifty grains in a day and succumb, whose stamina were not equal to ten grains. Small repeated doses can do all, he believes, that large doses d|o, without doing the mischief. Manual Dexterity and the Letters It is well known that in its develop­ ment each new born being passes through very muoh the same stages that his ancestors have been through before him. Even after birth the growth of the child's intelligence simu­ lates the progress of the human race from the savage condition to that of civilization. It has been shown by' Preyer, and others who have studied infant development, that a faculty which has been acquired by the race at a late stage, is late in making its ap­ pearance in the child. Now, reading and writing are arts of comparatively recent achievement Savage man could reap and sow, and weave, and build houses, long before he could com­ municate his thoughts to a person at a distance by means of written speech. There is, then, reason to believe that a child's general intelligence would be best trained by making him skillful in many kinds of manual labor be­ fore beginning to torture him with let­ ters; and the moral to be derived is, that primary instruction should be in­ struction in manual dexterity, and that reading and writing could be learned with ploasure a*d with ease by a child who had been fitted for taking them up by the right kind of preparation. - Science. . Why Ha Couldn't Raise Iî w« Mr. Saga is an habitual church goer, and he attended a well known church on Fifth Avenue for several months. Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Bristow occupied the pew directly behind that of Mr. Sage, and he, as well as others, had observed that Mr. Sage's invarable custom was to drop a quarter a dollar into the contribution box. One Sun­ day the preacher made an unusually strong and effective appeal for aid for some needy Christian object, and many members of the congregation, who were wont to drop silver coins into the box, put in greenbacks instead. Mr. Bris-. tow, it is alleged, leaned forward and whispered, "I say Sage, I will raise the usual gift to a dollar if you wilL" The millionaire at first nodded his head as if consenting to the proposition. Then, partly turning around, he said, "No, I can't give a dollar. I'll go fifty cents. I'd like to be generous, but I've got a million dollars in the bank that is not earning me a cent"--New York Graphic. > A YOUNG man in Chicago, whose bride was deaf, whistled so loudly that her hearing was restored. He is not so happy as he was. He is now com­ peted to take off his boots when he sneaks up the stairs at midnight. The practice of whistling can not be too •trongly deprecated. THE late Senator Anthony's wine- cellar in Providence, Rhode Island, was found to contain more than six thousand bottles of wine. A BULLET thrown at a gilt in a Low­ ell cartridge factory, to awaken her, lodged in her ear and caused her death. by Mr. Nelson *$r ataae tiaM d _ in Silver** aad alher town«Vn4^w*«, in Southern ; * " A dariag fo&bory had bean com­ mitted. The offidals of a waU-kum instiUtkm fat«tewnitt Saath- ?g °°* f^ySa^wSf^£t aaSile door had been broken open, the fasten­ ing of an inner door foroad, and the safe containing the bank's valuables drilled and blown and relieved of its contents. A oareful aearohofthe prem­ ises revealed the body of the watch­ man ia an adjoining vacant lot plereed with knife woaada and covered with bruiaes, showing the evidenoe of a struggle, and that more than one per­ son was engaged in the murder and robbery. Soon the whole community was aroused and the Sheriff; with a posse of armed and mounted men, was ready to start on the trail of the mur­ derers. But who were they and where could they be found were questions easier to ask than to answer. "On the floor of the banking-room was found a large brimmed sombrero, decorated with peculiar apangles, and which several citizens identified as hav- ing been worn by one of three strangers who came into town the afternoon be­ fore and had been drinking at several saloons during the evening. A tolera bly fair description of these men was obtained, also the information given by a ranchman who came into town dur ing the morning that three men an swering the description, armed and mounted on powerful horses, had passed him while on his way in about daylight, going south at a rapid rate, evidently on their way to Now Mexico. "Upon, hearing the ranchman'a story the officers separated into three squads and started off* well equipped for an encounter. Every trail over the moun­ tain was examined and every possible clew followed for several days, but to no purpose. The bank officials, Mayor of the town, and Govenor of the State offered rewards for the capture of the miscreants, which in the aggregate amounted to several thousands of dol lars. This induced a large number of determined and brave men to join in the pursuit, which was proaeonted for more than a week without result "Finally one of these parties, com­ posed of three of the best frontiersmen m the country, camo suddenly upon the fugitives in a rocky canon in the fast­ nesses" of the Needle Mountains shortly after daybreak, just as they were mak­ ing preparations for a rude breakfast Calling upon them to surrender, they were answered by a volley of shots, which were at once returned. The bat­ tle being one of life or death, the firing lasted some minutes without result, when one of the desperadoes fell mor­ tally wounded. The others, apparant- ly a man and a boy, kept up the firing until their ammunition was exhausted, when they weve compelled preforce to surrender. They were taken back to the camp or main rendezvous of the pursuing party, together with the body of the dead man. There it was pro­ posed to lynch the survivors, when a singular thing happened. The boy, who appeared to be not over IB years of age and of fair complexion and long hair, addressed the assemblage about as follows: 'Gentlemen, I suppose we have not very long to live, but before you carry your purpose into execution allow me to say that this man was in­ nocent of nny complicity in the murder but that the man who is dead and my­ self killed him, and your vengeance shonld fall upon me, the only guilty one living.' "The clear, musical, pleading voice, the long hair streaming in the wind, and the bright, sparkling eyes, which glowed with animation and were suf­ fused with tears during the appgiu, pro­ duced an impression upon these rough men for which they at the time could not account At the conclusion, how­ ever, the other prisoner suddenly started up and said: 'Gentlemen, don't beljeve the story told you. This is my wife, who, from her devotion to unworthy me, has accompanied, me in all my wanderings dressed in the garb of a man. She has in many desperate encouters saved my life, and. although delicately reared, has shared in all the hardships, dangers, and privations of my rough life, and not only had no share in the transactions of that even­ ing, but would Jiave prevented them could she have done a6. ' Don't believe her; she would save my life at the ex­ pense of her own.' "This streak of manliness in a nature so apparently mean rather staggered the men in their intentions for a few moments, but presently some of the leaders, remembering their purpose, ordered that preparations shouldc%t once be made for the hanging of the man. Suddenly the woman sprang up like a tigress about to be deprived of her young, and, snatching a pistol from the belt of one of the men, defied them to hang her husband; then, in another spirit, she fell on her knees and pite- ously prayed the stern men before her to spare her love, her life. The appeal was most piteous and affecting, and at its close she fell into a dead swoon. Carrying her to one side, the ghastly preparations were soon completed, and but a few minutes latter the body of Jack Maitland was swinging in mid­ air, and the punishment for the cruel crime which had been committed was complete. The wife was conveyed to town, and after hovering between life and death for weeks, finally recovered sufficiently to be sent home to her friends in the East, who proved to be of wealth and standing." -=illS8 Silt* .... j ifabe dow4i<«e|ih» THK worldrrenowaed tress is not married, is eternally talking ; „ 'er-Bon.--"Carl PreUeP* Ai^w haa evidently baMtifeentlji enacted In Egypt in-- ̂ " ̂- upon persona who 1 on tha aidewallta. nimwim fallen for two weeks. • HE is a brntiih husband who, when ̂ ̂ his little wife makes him, tot tha first?/ f fame, ̂ beautiful minoe pie, wanti to know if aha la sure that she put the " anti-bilioua pills into the etuffing. : "WiLL you have salt on yams eeers?"u ' * v asked the hotel waiter ofthe gueat V O, no, thanks: they are not at nlLyv fresh." Then the waiter went ont to4** ? consult the landlord to sea if tha hotel ; had been insulted. ̂'i A,--^I SAY, your topcoat is covered, with dirt" B.--"It fell Into the Rot­ ters as I was coming club last night" you keep better hold I nad it on at A MAN will walk five topooatia < i fell Into tl gut;., . •* from didn't/" | "Bo- - miles in a po- I *v litical procession, carrying a torch aadlni] feeling good over it, but it makes hiir< f«, r tired for a week to walk five blooks V and carry a letter to the postofllce fof- "^ hia wife. eller. •Cincinnati Merchant Travis Now THE hnskers are arfayed on , Many adi sky ban's Wide floor, > • ' Every swain beside hU maiden , „; Rounded the heaped-np go'den stONf * V:%% With what bliasfnl expectation •?' »/ / Do 1 hey watch the corn appear, ' • ; • S- Till the Aitfden oscnlation . Loud proc:aimn Che rats red ear. --Burlington hrm I*re»s. IT is seriously proposed to previdl̂ f-,* " eaeh night policeman in England with , a large dog. It has been 'a.matter of * ' .« ^ surprise to us that this haa art bean • -"•-fV done before. It is difficult to oompve- •>* ̂ hend how an officer can dog the stepaof a criminal when he haa no dog. The ' '-.-v dog aupplies a long-felt want f* ' GIRL in blue--"There's young Mr. Vu\ Duderson over there; don't you think.t he's just splendid?" Girl in red-- i- "Splendid, that pan of mush! wliy he took me buggy-riding last week, and >, tried to kiss me." G.I. B.--"Well?" Q. 1 B.--"Well, he put his arm around ^ , /• me, and--and of course I told him just " to behave himself." G. L B:--"Well?"' G. I. R.--"Well'--he behaved himself!": Both--"Ugh!"--San Francisco •Po8t,i DEAD. "Tread s iftly, dear," the old man raid, " "Frr here iu this room he lies; » Dumb are thj lips you loved BO well, „* /. And ole s d are the beantlinlSyea. ' ft . Tour hand cannot rouse him nov, poor girl: j,jy' » Hii heart t-tirs not to your cries; Foruotten is earth and the thing* ihnrafi 1 " w" He sleeps, let us stifle our a|fha." The aw<ul truth came home to her then. And she bent o'er the bSsriled chin; ^ _ "Oh,heaven!"shemoaned, "tistruehe'adead! 'A',* "if- Dead drunk again, and on ginl" a-- --The Judge. A GALVESTON lady has a brother who \ , - is an artist, aqd of whom aho.is very 4 f proud. She imagines that her brother ^ ^ is a great painter, but he is not Not ! long aince a genttanMt who is a good ' vJ judge ot pictuilPllgfi her. ^ h, showed him one of her orother'a tures, expeoting him to praise it. he had examined it carefully, he a&l "At what trade dia you, say brother wA engaged ?"-- texqis ing 8. A muaoK nam. Yes, I know a maiden wiity, ( • One so amlablj and pretty. Itti* 1 une so amwDii ana pxeicy. Express to her my iote I hardly date. < White as ivory are her teeth. A New Bangle. The newest of the bangle freaks ia a necklace made out of the insides of old watches. Not only necklaces but ear­ rings and pendants are made out of that part of the old watches which made a kind of an inner cover or sheath of the works. Though not wrought ont of gold as a rule, this covering was always very prettily chased, and cov­ ered with pleasant arabesque work. Probably watch-makers have thrown away this part of the old works as use­ less. Some person of ingenuity thought of stringing the bits of metal into ornaments, and now they are worn, and may be seen in the windows ol bric-a-brack shops. The Point of Ylew. Miss Tayleure--Why, Jane! What in the world are you doing ? Jane (who has been unpacking; Sir Hubert do Tayleure (1066) just arrived) --Faith, Misn, you said it was to be set op in the library, and I can't make nothing out of it, nohow I never aee such a stove before. , It's all pipe.-- Life. HOPE' is like the cork to the net, which keeps the soul from «inir»ng ^ despair; :y. Dimpled chin'resta undernaaH,i : - . > And her papa ia a well-known mtllloss^ a u-'itl Her form is just perfeoiton, . , . Faintest pink her Complexion,' In her manner she is alithtly deoonnafc. .. She haa eye* of Mqnd b)a^ ' 'A Dainty foot, a number twp.. With a papa qui e a well-known millionaire. • •'•"- Bhe lives i crass the way, i While I flirt with her each day ••;•?.{' - Ivow (hat onlc she mv lot shall afaaro. ; Her father will l see, . •}', hit® • - And find out can I be , , ^ * . His son-in-law and Utile million heir. -- D e t r o i t J o u r n a l . s 1 ; . < ' v ELDER PHILLIPS, who was a jovial soul, settled many years ago near the headwaters of the Susquehanna. He was, in faot, a Presbyterian dofninie. # He was full of humor and ready with .lf -: his repartee on all occasions. Jack ' Bickett, a quasi parishioner, who was more punctual at the river than at the church, presented the Elder one Mon­ day morning with a fine string of pick­ erel. Elder Phillips thanked him graciously for the gift "But, Elder," suggested Jack, still retaining the fish, "those fish were caught yesterday (Sun­ day). Perhaps yer conscience won!t let ye eat 'em." "Jack," replied the Elder, stretching out his hand towards the string, "there's one thing I know-- the pickerel were not to blamed-- Charles Dudley Warner. : . Washington as a Long-Distance Thrower. It was on Union Square that a man whose histronic yawp is well know all over the land told the following chest­ nut to the boys. I*>rd Coleridge, when he visited this country, stood with Wil­ liam M Evarts on the banks of the Po­ tomac, opposite the City of Washing­ ton. "Do you know, Evarts, said his Lord­ ship," "I have heard George Wash­ ington was a man of great' physical prowers. I was to'd that he oooe threw a silver dollar from this spot acrosa tha Potomac." "You must remember, my Lor4," said Mr. Evarts, "that a dollar would go a great deal further In those days than it would now." The gloom that the recital of this old story had thrown over the gang was wafted away by our friend in the long ulster, who said: . ' "I would suggest that Evarts might' have said something else." "What?" "He might have said; 1 never heard that he threw a silver dollar across the Potomac, but history tells us that he threw an English sovereign across tha the Atlantic.' "--Texas Siftings. Sense and Sound. 1 J Little Nell--Oh, mamma, you're tick­ ing slang. Mamma--I guess not, pet "Yes you are, mamma. Didn't yon tell me that saying 'kid* instead of ohua was slang?" "Yes, pet" "Well, just now you was telling about gypsies that steal children, and you talked slang then." "Indeed ? Why, what did I eay ?" ,. "You called them • 'kid'-nabbera"-- Philadelphia Call. ii THE great Amazon turtles lay their eggs in holes two feet deep in the sand, while the alligators simply oover with a few leaves and sticks. ffii ; Wik,- wfi 1 •*<T> '*V .Jl** . ItL • «• • . < 1 s:<- . .•tVjfewB-Sr.*" iSSICMit il . J :